Next time: try http://www.lacajachina.com/. Cheaper, faster, and much, much safer... I have yet to figure out how the hell one puts a photo into one of these messages, which prevents me from putting up one of pig on a stick on the pit done right.

Oh, I was never gone... I've just been too busy to post anything and limited to quick drive-by replies on other folks' threads. The pile up of TNs and travel reports has become so obscene (17 of my little black Clairefontaine notebooks, plus a whole mess of loose sheets, napkins and voice recordings on my cell phone) I need to do something about it and get down to typing.

Manuel Camblor wrote:Next time: try http://www.lacajachina.com/. Cheaper, faster, and much, much safer... I have yet to figure out how the hell one puts a photo into one of these messages, which prevents me from putting up one of pig on a stick on the pit done right.

I wanted to get one of those, Manuel. My only problem is storage - I've got none of it! So, as with a paella pan, they'll have to wait until I get a bigger apartment.

Manuel Camblor wrote:Well thank you, James. I try to keep as decently as possible, even if I'm rather overweight and blind in one eye. I drive one girl crazy, but I htink it's "crazy" the wrong way, at this stage.

By the way, in that glass I'm holding in the photo there's 1986 Oddero Barolo "Vigna Rionda" (funny, the permanence of photography; a wine I drank and excreted months ago is still there...)

I've been driving one girl crazy in any multitude of ways for 26 years or more. You are thinner, and much younger than I am. Plus you don't have three daughters (21, 16, and 14) to keep you up at night. Keep the girl crazy (in a good way) and be good to yourself (and her)!